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# Tissue Recovery Specialist (Contract) - Northern OR Southern Indiana at Ossium Health

- **Company:** Ossium Health
- **Location:** Field Based: Northern, IN / Field Based: Southern, IN
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-12-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://ossiumhealth.com/jd?gh_jid=4629003006

## Job description

## About Ossium

Ossium’s mission is to improve the health, vitality, and longevity of human beings through bioengineering. We develop, manufacture, and bank cell therapy products that apply the power of stem cell science to revolutionize treatment for patients with blood, immune, and orthopedic diseases.  At Ossium, we empower our employees, maintain the highest standards of operational excellence, and are a force for good.

About the Role:

The Tissue Recovery Specialist is an independent contractor role supporting Ossium Health’s vertebral body recovery program. Tissue Recovery Specialists are engaged when additional support is required to ensure timely donor recovery.  This is a unique level role for an individual with operating room or tissue recovery experience. This role is available in two locations: Northern Indiana (near Fort Wayne) and Southern Indiana (near Evansville).

Key Responsibilities:

- Respond promptly to Ossium communications regarding donor recovery availability
- Perform vertebral body recovery immediately following organ procurement or when permitted
- Develop in-depth knowledge of Ossium Health and recovery partner protocols to consistently ensure high quality performance
- Travel primarily by car, using either your own vehicle or a recovery partner’s vehicle if permitted, and potentially by plane to designated facilities where organ procurement is performed
- Coordinate closely with Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) staff
- Be available to recover a minimum of 4 cases per month to maintain competency level
- Document, recover, package, and personally deliver recovered tissue to Ossium’s processing facility in Indianapolis
- Represent Ossium Health with professionalism to partners and clinical staff
- Consistently adhere to all safety standards, including proper use of PPE

This is not an on-call position. You will only be contacted when recovery coverage is needed. Upon notification, you may choose to accept the case if you are available to arrive within the required timeframe.

The Tissue Recovery Specialist reports directly to the Manager of Recovery Services.

Required Qualifications

- Experience working in an OPO (organ, tissue, ocular recovery) or hospital operating room (OR) setting
- Must possess valid driver’s license
- Ability to reliably travel (drive/fly) with limited notice (typically under 6 hours)
- If within Northern Indiana, often in or around Fort Wayne.
- If within Southern Indiana, often in or around Evansville
- While also being able to travel to other locations within Indiana.
- Flexibility to work outside standard business hours (evenings, nights, weekends, or holidays) as needed
- Proficiency in recovery techniques with strong attention to aseptic practice
- Strong knowledge of anatomy and medical terminology
- Excellent communication skills with a professional, approachable demeanor
- Reliability, responsiveness, and attention to detail
- Employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check and reference verification.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of organ, tissue, ocular recovery, or hospital OR experience
- Associate’s degree in a science or healthcare-related field
- Certified Tissue Bank Specialist (CTBS)

Physical Requirements

- Training in bloodborne pathogen safety required (Hepatitis B vaccination available)
- Ability to work aseptically in controlled environments
- Comfort working around biohazardous materials and chemicals
- Ability to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 50 lbs
- Manual dexterity to handle surgical instruments, tools, and recovery equipment.
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, and reach as needed during recoveries

Ossium Health provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected characteristic. Our [Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://ossiumhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ossium-Health-2024-Equal-Employment-Opportunity-Policy-Statement.pdf) and the [Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) reaffirm this commitment. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact our People Team at careers@ossiumhealth.com or 650-285-0603. Ossium Health complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities.

Principals / direct applicants only please. Recruiters, please do not contact this job poster.

## Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

## About Ossium Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ossium Health is a clinical-stage bioengineering company that creates life-saving stem cell therapies from deceased donors for use in bone marrow transplants and other blood and immune system diseases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Kevin Caldwell (CEO, Co-Founder) and Erik Woods (Chief Science Officer, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Biotechnology / Cell Therapy
- **Target Customers**: B2B – healthcare providers (transplant centers), life science companies (biopharma partners), and organ procurement organizations (OPOs)
- **Mission**: “To improve human health through bioengineering” and “Establish a new source for life-saving stem cells” by bringing the deceased donor transplant ecosystem into the fight against diseases of the blood and immune systems.

## Products & Services
- **HPC, Marrow (Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells from marrow)**: An allogeneic stem cell product derived from vertebral body donors, used in bone marrow transplants. First patient successfully engrafted at Henry Ford Health in June 2024.
- **OssiGraft**: An orthopedic product (first patient treated November 2023) – marks the company’s entry into orthopedics.
- **CD34+ Product**: A purified hematopoietic stem cell product used in a multivisceral transplant study at Columbia University Medical Center (first patient November 2021).
- **Platform Model**: A proprietary process for recovering, processing, and cryopreserving cells from deceased donors, enabling off-the-shelf cell therapies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – USD 128.9 million across multiple rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, and a grant)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investors: CPMG (Series C lead), Vivo Capital (Series B co-lead), General Catalyst (Series B co-lead), First Round Capital (Series A lead)
  - Other investors: Manta Ray Ventures, Village Global, Asahi Kasei, Alumni Ventures
  - Federal partner: Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) – contract for radiological/nuclear emergency preparedness
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: ~75 employees, with +13.3% yearly growth (LinkedIn)
  - Active job postings: 14 (as of mid-2025)
  - Recent clinical milestones: first patient engrafted with HPC Marrow (June 2024) and first OssiGraft patient (Nov 2023)
  - Series C closed July 2023 ($52M)
  - Expanded into orthopedics and federal preparedness markets

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Cell Source**: Uses deceased donors (vertebral bodies) rather than living donors or iPSCs, leveraging an existing transplant network to produce scalable, off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapies.
- **Proprietary Processing & Cryopreservation**: Founders have deep expertise in cryobiology; Dr. Woods co-invented the first closed-system cryovial for cell therapy (CellSeal®) and commercial human platelet lysate (Stemulate®).
- **Regulatory & Operational Infrastructure**: CLIA-certified lab, FDA-registered facility, and AABB accreditation; experienced in high-complexity clinical cell manufacturing.
- **Government Partnership**: BARDA contract validates the platform for national emergency preparedness, providing a stable, non-dilutive revenue stream and strategic credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- Advance clinical trials for HPC Marrow in bone marrow transplant (lead indication) and expand into orthopedics with OssiGraft.
- Strengthen partnerships with OPOs and healthcare systems to increase donor tissue access.
- Scale manufacturing capacity at the Indianapolis facility to meet commercial and federal contract demand.
- Continue to develop additional cell therapy programs (e.g., immune effector cells, mesenchymal stromal cells) using the same platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes Truth (data-driven decision making), Ownership (high accountability), Grit (persistence toward mission), and Impact (improving human health).
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are motivated by the chance to fight diseases like leukemia and lymphoma, and to contribute to national health security (BARDA partnership).
- **Work Environment**: Two locations – San Francisco HQ (office) and Indianapolis facility (cell manufacturing lab). Roles span clinical production, recovery services, quality assurance, research, and commercial. Likely on-site for lab and manufacturing roles.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling company with recent clinical wins and a growing headcount; employees can take ownership of impactful projects early in their careers.
- **Notable Perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company highlights “empowering employees, maintaining the highest standards of excellence, and being a force for good.”

## Sources
1. [Ossium Health – Careers Page](https://ossiumhealth.com/careers/)
2. [Ossium Health – Homepage](https://ossiumhealth.com/)
3. [Ossium Health – Company About](https://ossiumhealth.com/company/)
4. [Ossium Health – Our Team](https://ossiumhealth.com/our-team/)
5. [Ossium Health – LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ossiumhealth)

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